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Poetic power of place : comparative perspectives on Austronesian ideas of locality / edited by James J. Fox.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Canberra : ANU E Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1920942866
  • 9781920942861
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 200 22
LOC classification:
  • GF669.2
Online resources:
Contents:
Place and landscape in comparative Austronesian perspective / James J. Fox -- The water that blesses, the river that flows: place and the ritual imagination among The Temanambondro Of southeast Madagascar / Philip Thomas -- Remembering origins: ancestors and places in the Gumai society Of south Sumatra / Minako Sakai -- The contested landscapes of myth and history in Tana Toraja / Roxana Waterson -- Genealogy and topogeny: towards an ethnography of Rotinese ritual place names / James J. Fox -- Mapping with metaphor: cultural topographies in West Timor / Andrew McWilliam -- Knowing your place: representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape / Barbara Dix Grimes -- Speaking of places: spatial poesis and localized identity in Buli / Nils Bubandt -- From the poetics of place to the politics of space: redefining cultural landscapes on Damer, Maluku Tenggara / Sandra Pannell -- Seating the place: tropes of body, movement and space for the people of Lelet Plateau, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) / Richard Eves.
Summary: "This collection of papers is the fourth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Each paper describes a specific Austronesian locality and offers an ethnographic account of the way in which social knowledge is vested, maintained and transformed in a particular landscape. The intention of the volume is to consider common patterns in the representation of place among Austronesian-speaking populations."--Publisher's description.
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Place and landscape in comparative Austronesian perspective / James J. Fox -- The water that blesses, the river that flows: place and the ritual imagination among The Temanambondro Of southeast Madagascar / Philip Thomas -- Remembering origins: ancestors and places in the Gumai society Of south Sumatra / Minako Sakai -- The contested landscapes of myth and history in Tana Toraja / Roxana Waterson -- Genealogy and topogeny: towards an ethnography of Rotinese ritual place names / James J. Fox -- Mapping with metaphor: cultural topographies in West Timor / Andrew McWilliam -- Knowing your place: representing relations of precedence and origin on the Buru landscape / Barbara Dix Grimes -- Speaking of places: spatial poesis and localized identity in Buli / Nils Bubandt -- From the poetics of place to the politics of space: redefining cultural landscapes on Damer, Maluku Tenggara / Sandra Pannell -- Seating the place: tropes of body, movement and space for the people of Lelet Plateau, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) / Richard Eves.

"This collection of papers is the fourth in a series of volumes on the work of the Comparative Austronesian Project. Each paper describes a specific Austronesian locality and offers an ethnographic account of the way in which social knowledge is vested, maintained and transformed in a particular landscape. The intention of the volume is to consider common patterns in the representation of place among Austronesian-speaking populations."--Publisher's description.

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